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Snap Mirror abort : Couldn't write to Socket

SunilS — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 20:19:37 GMT

Hi Guys,

We are facing an issue with snapmirror initialize, suddenly the transfer gets aborted with an error couldn't write to socket. Someone can suggest the solution.

Netapp 7 - mode filers.

Re: Snap Mirror abort : Couldn't write to Socket

sivadass_m — Thu, 23 Jun 2016 13:53:33 GMT

Are you trying to setup snapmirror replication across the filer ? If yes - Are you trying to configure for the first time ?

Please share detail informatin to suggest further....

Re: Snap Mirror abort : Couldn't write to Socket

naren_s — Fri, 01 Jul 2016 19:21:13 GMT

Were you able to check the option snapmirror.access... legacy/all/hostnames?
Post its output and also output of snapmirror.allow file.
Do let me know are you using any snapcreator with https authentication.

Re: Snap Mirror abort : Couldn't write to Socket

NAYABSK — Sat, 02 Jul 2016 14:59:13 GMT

Hi Sunil,

As Naren mentioned issue would be with

snapmirror.access ( Should be changed legacy or hostname )

Make sure your destination has entry in the host files ( In case if you are not using any resolver ) and also make sure that dest controller is defined in the snapmirror.allow file ( can be found under /etc , whcih can be accessed from vol0 )

Ex:- snapmirror.access command

filerA>options snapmirror.access host=filerB,filerC ( Can mention IP address as well )

Ex:- snapmorror.allow file

filerA>rdfile /etc/snapmirror.allow

filerB
FilerC

Thanks,

Nayab